“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As long as you believe that either good events or bad ones are meted out by a personified God as the reward or punishment for your actions, or on the other hand that events are largely meaningless, chaotic, subjective knots in the tangled web of an accidental Darwinian world, then you cannot consciously understand your own creativity, or play the role in the universe that you are capable of playing as individuals or as a species. [...]

[...] In a way, the world is like a multidimensional, exotic plant growing in space and time, each thought, dream, imaginative encounter, hope or fear, growing naturally into its own bloom — a plant of incredible variety, never for a moment the same, in which each smallest root, leaf, stem, or flower has a part to play and is connected with the whole.

[...] All my hard work has brought me nowhere, and therefore I shall change my tactics and I shall play. I do not care, for I am playing, which game I try first. [...]

[...] You have forgotten how to play! [...]

Now our friend here has been playing as a banker for years, and he knows it is a fine game. [...]

Indeed in joy, for I play at being Seth, in joy, for I am many others as you are many others. [...]

[...] That feeling is indeed the feeling of playfulness that I have mentioned so often. [...]

The word Sumari carries within itself the essence of playful creativity, and delights indeed in so-called miraculous healings, enjoying surprises and a sense of pure fun. [...]

[...] It involves something like a sleight of hand trick, played by one part of the whole self upon another part. As an actor in a drama goes along with certain acts and gestures that make the play necessary, while at the same time he realizes that the play is a play, he must still focus his attention upon the lines spoken, and use the props available.

No play can go on forever. [...]

[...] But you have not been serious enough about using it, nor have you been playful enough to use it without serious note. [...] You may play with it and use it marvelously—or you may use it seriously—but in between you will not use it at all, for you cannot harness it. And in your own daily activities, in your playful moments, you can almost achieve the freedoms that the inner self knows. [...]

[...] You (Jane and Sue) used your energy like a ball that a child plays with, both you and Ruburt. [...]

[...] The bump, for this has been a very active evening, was from your playful poltergeist AA. [...]

Your part is highly vital, and you are playing it well. [...]

[...] A more playful attitude should be adopted when he gets up and down from the floor, and in the running. [...]

[...] Tell him also to shake his arms downward from both the elbow and the shoulder, and in a playful manner, as if he were a rag doll perhaps. [...]

[...] My word to him now then, for the 100th time—but now he will take it—is to allow himself spontaneity on a daily basis, the feeling of playfulness. [...]

The more actively and fully such a diversion can be indulged, the better, of course, and yet the mental playing of games can be quite fruitful, and serve to give the conscious mind a needed rest.

[...] The patient should be encouraged to play with the pet as much as possible, and to nourish it, to caress and fondle it.

(To Laurie.) Now you are playing around in your haunted house. [...] You are like children playing with a ball except you have made the ball yourselves and then it will lead you on a merry chase. It is good exercise and healthy play. [...]

[...] I did say that you are playing around with psychic ability as a child with a ball.

For example, you are not creatively playful because you are Sumari. Instead, you join the Sumari grouping because you are creatively playful. [...]

[...] They are not reformers in the strictest sense, yet their playful work does often end up reforming a society or culture. [...]

[...] They like to play with details — or to use them for creative purposes. [...]

[...] At the same time—I do not mean simultaneously—in spare moments, playfully and not seriously, he should see himself performing any number of activities on the floor—from painting as he used to, to talking or reading. [...]

[...] A sense of play must accompany this however. [...]

[...] In all of his endeavors Ruburt should adopt a more playful attitude. [...]

“Now, the creative abilities do not just help you write books, paint pictures, play the piano, compose. [...]

Any imagery involving motion, done playfully, is excellent. [...] It can all come as playfully as Ruburt’s writing comes. [...]

([We checked notes after next break.] When personality compared physical reality with children playing with [physical] blocks, he made a remark about a giant peering through the window at the child’s play; and... [...]

[...] Even suggestions should be given playfully, not heavy-handedly. For his point-of-power exercises have him just playfully for five minutes pretend—knowing that it is a game—that he feels perfectly normal and relaxed. Let him consider impulses also playfully, not looking at each one as if it were as important as the ending of the world.

[...] Within that framework, however, you do have the creative abilities, and these stand out in their own fashions, since they “play with the facts.” [...]

The idea of the Sinful Self came into play here, for if the material was not true, then in that framework it must necessarily be false—or at the least very misleading. [...]

[...] What’s this he’s playing with about the Speaker’s manuscripts?”)

Let Ruburt remember the playfulness of games. [...]

[...] I want him to continue helping with “Unknown”—but also to follow the suggestions I gave a while ago, and devote some time each day to free, creative, playful thought. [...]

[...] The idea of creative play, no matter how futile the idea may sometimes appear, is excellent, and can be used, again, when you both remember to assert your creative playful selves. [...]

[...] When an idea comes to you, do not play with it intellectually, but reach out to it intuitively. [...]